As a vibrant alternative to glamorous fashion weeks, this summer (July 7-8-9) the famous Street- and Urbanwear trade show Bread & Butter arranged a range of mind-blowing events featuring a plethora of brands, including Diesel, Boss Orange, Nike and Adidas. The first was probably the most active of them, inviting the guests of the shows to take part in its awesome activities. Diesel’s presence at the fair was mirroring—as you may have already guessed—its “Be stupid” theme, which underlies the latest campaigns of the brand.

H&M has made something very fresh for those who know fashion and just love guessing games. Ahead of the New York fashion week (September 9-16), the global clothing chose a new way of introducing designers, who are going to collaborate with the label within the coming months. H&M launched a great campaign titled «Designer Collaboration 2010» and based on a series of cryptic spots, inviting to guess the disguised, still internationally famous personalities featured in them.

Following Target’s example, Levi’s is putting models wearing its Curve ID jeans collection in the windows of a high rise building to promote this new range in Japan. The new system of jeans, developed by Levi’s, focuses on shape, not size, thus enabling female consumers select exactly what will be fitting their curved (or not very curved) bodies.

Some futuristic movies, no matter how unbelievable things they might feature, do predetermine what we’ll have tomorrow. Nike, as one of the most innovative brands in the footwear and apparel industry, is going to develop first-ever self-lacing sneakers, very similar to those in «Back to the Future 2». Nike has already patented the new hilarious concept, so we might be welcoming the new high-tech shoe on the shelves of the brand’s venues very soon.

Lacoste is going on unveiling the legends of the industries, related to the brand. Recently, the world-known producer of sportswear launched a website to pay tribute to René Lacoste, the man, who actually started the brand in the first half of the 20th century. Now the global label has teamed up with 12 companies from the areas of music, retail, fashion and media to launch the “Lacoste Legends” creative collaboration, which is teaming up pure icons of their industries.

Now we are all witnessing the era of switching to green concepts, and most of the global brands are trying hard to change out life for better by introducing new approaches to making industries more eco-friendly . This dedication became the basis for the Eco Index, launched earlier this month and described as a “ground-breaking environmental assessment tool designed to advance sustainability practices within the outdoor industry.”